Romania’s PSD launches branch in Chisinau

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) of Romania on February 12 inaugurated its local office in Chisinau. Romanian Social-Democratic lawmaker Cristian Rizea told a news conference that through its branch the PSD of Romania will send messages of support to the Romanians in Moldova, in the context of the elections in Romania, Info-Prim Neo reports. Cristian Rizea said that the area office has over 90 members who are citizens of Romania. The branch’s administration will be elected within two months. According to the MP, negotiations are now held with Moldovan personalities and the branch’s head will be a famous person from Moldova. The lawmaker also said that the PSD will convey messages to the Romanians from the diaspora. The branch will collect the wishes of the Romanians and will disseminate messages of support among the Romanians from Moldova. Cristian Rizea said the party aims to facilitate the process of regaining Romanian nationality by eliminating the queues at the Embassy and the bureaucracy to which the citizens are subjected. “We must grant Romanian nationality to the people who prove that they have the right to and want this as we are a nation,” he stated. As to the Social Democratic Party of Moldova, the Romanian MP said he was surprised when he found out about its existence. “I saw that it has the same colors as the Social Democratic Party of Romania. Only the electoral symbol differs. We have three roses, while they have a ‘martsishor’. We have no political connection with that party. Furthermore, I think it does not represent the social democracy. Social democracy now means forming part of the international Social-Democratic family and sharing the European values. Unfortunately, that political party is a satellite or a puppet of the Communist Party and does not share these values. On the contrary,” said Cristian Rizea. The PSD’s branch in Moldova is a subdivision of the organization Diaspora, which was set up at the Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Romania in October 2010. According to the MP, Romania’s PSD has branches in the countries where there are large communities of Romanians, like Italy, Spain, Israel, Belgium, France, and Germany.